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Ireland: riots blamed on the far right break out in Dublin after a knife attack
Ireland: riots blamed on the far right break out in Dublin after a knife attack – (France 2)
Riots broke out in Dublin, Ireland on the evening of Thursday, November 23. Unrest blamed on the far right, which took place after a man attacked several people with a knife. He was named as an Algerian on social media, stoking the anger of the rioters.
On the evening of Thursday, November 23, police cars were set on fire in the city center of Dublin (Ireland). A bus and a tram were destroyed by the flames. Windshields and windows were broken and stores looted. These clashes were the result of hundreds of rioters driven, according to the police, by a far-right ideology, with slogans hostile to foreigners. An explosion of violence on a level not seen for decades in Ireland.
A xenophobic ideology denounced by the Irish Prime Minister
It all started with a knife attack outside a Dublin school on Thursday afternoon, which left five people injured, including a five-year-old girl in critical condition. The police ruled out the terrorist motive, but the suspect, arrested on the spot, was quickly identified as an Algerian on social networks, fueling the anger of anti-immigration demonstrators. However, the suspect would be a naturalized Irish citizen. It was two foreign passers-by who intervened, a Brazilian delivery man and a 17-year-old French high school student, slightly injured in the hand and face. Leo Varadkar, Irish Prime Minister, attacked the xenophobic ideology of the rioters on Friday morning.
